LMD VCL 2010 - What's New?

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General

Support for IDEs and operating systems

• Compatible with Delphi 2010 and C++ Builder 2010!
• Supported IDEs
  • Delphi 6, 7, Delphi 2005 - 2010
  • C++ Builder 6, 2006 - 2010
  • Delphi 2005.NET - Delphi 2007.NET
  • Turbo (2006) Professional versions for Delphi, C++ and Delphi.NET
  • All corresponding Studio Products (BDS 2006, CRS 2007, CRS 2009, ERS 2010 etc.)
• Supported operating systems
  • Win98 and WinNT4 or better (including Windows 7).

For recent Delphi releases same platforms as the IDE are supported (e.g. Delphi 2009 officially supports Win2k or better only).

Common new features

• Improved shared Unicode support, including additional rework for native Unicode in Delphi 2009 and higher.
• Many minor improvements in the shared packages based on customer requests, examples are:
  • BTS# 733, adapting behaviour of TLMDWideStringList.IndexOf functionality
  • LMDStrings: LMDCheckWildCardMask method added.
  • LMDGraphUtils: LMDExtTextOut method added.

New Packages

• LMD DockingPack - Add docking features with floating panels and hot zones as known e.g. from Visual studio! This package is included by default in LMD-Tools and LMD ElPack.

Standalone Packs with major updates

• LMD ScriptPack - in connection with IDE-Tools: Heavily improved Debugger Support for both ActiveScripting Engine based languages and the native PascalScript variant.
• LMD ThemePack
  • Improved support for built-in themes (runtime customization) including saving/restoring theme data to/from XML files.
  • DrawThemeEdge and GetThemeColor methods implemented.
  • Batch edit methods added (ReplaceColor, SetNewColor, ChangeBrightness).
  • LMD Office2003ThemeRenderer demo improved and can be now used for generating custom color schemes:

LMD-Tools

Shared Runtime

• Windows 7 support.
• Correct PNG support e.g. in FillObject propertes (as available in ElPack)
• Improved rendering of the integrated internal HTML engine

Main Controls

• New Control: TLMDBiProgressBar. Support 2 progress indicators in one control and additional marquee and infinite modes.
• New Control: TLMDBiTrackBar. Allow 2 thumb controls to specify two values or ranges.
• New Control: TLMDGrid with advanced features like
  • Full support of LMD ThemePack
  • Customizable inplace editors
  • Insert/delete/move colums at runtime
  • Column sorting and much more

A lot of work is in progress here, the R2 release will add many more predefined place editors along with the DBGrid variant.

• TLMDCustomEdit (and descendants):
  • CueBanner property added. This property has effect for those descendants of TLMDCustomEdit that can contain empty text. Unlike the Delphi implementation (available from Delphi 2009 on) this feature works on any supported OS.
• TLMDMaskEdit
  • Value getters are now setters, too. The existing functions AsInteger, AsCardinal, AsInt64, AsFloat, AsDate, AsTime, AsCurrency, AsString have been transformed to read/write properties.
• TLMDStyleManager
  • Improved designtime editor (e.g. property filters with wildcard support)
• ListBox Controls: Default items can now be set at designtime

LMD BarPack

TLMDExplorerBar
MouseDown and MouseUp within sections now are translated to ExplorerBar events.

LMD ElPack

• DockingPack included
• TElXTree
  • GetNextChecked and GetCheckedCount methods added. These methods are based on LookForItemEx2 method and can be used with such flags as IterateBackward, CheckStartItem, SubItemsOnly, VisibleOnly, CountCollapsed.
  • Drag&Drop header with scrolling
• TElListBox
  • Advanced/Extended OnChange/OnClick events (which can be used as item selection notifier)
• TElStyleManager
  • Improved designtime editor (e.g. property filters with wildcard support)
  • Apply Button which allows to review changes before closing the dialog
• TElExpressionEval: Improved error handling
• TElHTMLLabel: Vertical Spacing added (LineGap property)

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